Following a few days of rare solar activity, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency (NOAA) has issued a Severe (G4) Geomagnetic Storm Watch for this weekend. In addition to potential disruptions of the electric power grid, navigation, radio, and satellite operations, NOAA experts predicts that because of the storm, the Northern Lights may be visible...

With all the decluttering methods out there, you have options for how you are going to go about battling all the junk in your home. But they do all have basic tenets and requirements in common. Whether you move through the space in bursts, store items you might want to hold onto but aren't sure about, or follow rules governing how you determine whether...

I often see pictures of crispy pork belly that show great slabs of meat topped with bubbly, crackling. It looks enticing, and intimidating: Preparing large cuts of meat for the first time can induce questioning and uncertainty, from “where can I buy pork belly that large?” to “If I mess up, I’ll waste all that meat.” As we celebrate yet another Air...

A lot of decluttering methods are intimidatingly objective, prompting you to make split-second decisions about what stays and what goes and not allowing yourself to get too sentimental about anything, but to focus on each item's usefulness in your life. Some methods, like KonMari, leave a little space for things that only bring you joy, but for the...

Protein shakes can end up chunky or lumpy if you don’t mix them right. That’s why a shaker bottle does a better job of mixing whey into milk than simply stirring with a spoon. A blender works even better, if you’re up for cleaning a blender when you’re done. But there is a better option: a handheld frother. ...

Whatever happened to the erotic thriller? There’s something of a bell curve to the distribution of the sexy programmer, rising with the relaxing of the production code in the late 1960s, topping out in the ‘80s with prestige fare like Fatal Attraction, and tailing off by the mid-2000s, and the dominance of franchise culture. Today’s box office values...